Christian Tradition Quiz 1

Question 1

Secularity is not anti-religion, but it is rather

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2 conflicting stories

Question 2

What does Late Modern Secularity emphasize?

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Individual values

Question 3

What does the Christian Tradition emphasize?

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Sacrifice, loving others, serving others, not always getting our way

Question 4

How is the secular age a haunted age?

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There are vestiges of faith everywhere, people want the feeling of transcendence they just don’t want to believe in God

Question 5

What is Smith’s goal?

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To illuminate the modern secular age

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Definition of secular1

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Ancient understanding of secularity; deals with earthly things, not the divine (secular professions vs. sacred ones)

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Definition of secular2

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religiously neutral space with assumption that you can divide life and leave religion when entering some places (ex. public school)

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Definition of secular3

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Belief that God is 1 among many and whatever you want to believe is okay

Question 9

Definition of enchanted world

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people believed everything is charged with power; “things can do stuff”

Question 10

Definition of disenchanted world

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meaning comes from inside; “I do stuff”

Question 11

How does greek cosmology play a part in our beliefs today?

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It consists of the temporal and the eternal world; What is most true about the world is in the eternal because it is unchanging. (Plato’s forms)

Question 12

Cogito ergo sum

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I think, therefore I am

Question 13

T/F Biblical writers believed we wouldd have an eternal soul

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F; that has been influenced by Greek cosmology

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Ancient view of reality

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The Divided lIne; Immanentization collapses the eternal into the temporal

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t/f without transcendence, reality collapses into radical sameness

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T; and God becomes a condiment and we start making our own meaning

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Keeping God as an idea bc we like him that way, but not in our lives is an example of

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Deism

Question 17

T/F secularity is the same as atheism

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F; secularity isn’t committed to the philosophical reality of a metaphysical world

Question 18

De-personalizing God

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excarnation

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personalizing God

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incarnation

Question 20

T/F Without transcendence, we have to create meaning for ourselves

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T

Question 21

2 ways to live in a secular age

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Take

Spin

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view of a world that takes itself seriously but can function in the presence of other systems

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Take

Question 23

Something that can function only in the totality of its own view of the world and disproves of others; fundamentalists

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Spin

Question 24

People with this view of the world demand that the world work only according to logic and see transcendence as a threat to their worldview

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Closed Spin

Question 25

T/F conversion to an open system is based on feeling, not argumentation

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T

Question 26

work of people; things we do regularly

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Liturgy

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When does peter gain his ID?

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When he joins the liturgy of NL (insult war) | Joins after being encouraged by the community

Question 28

When does Peter get to join the feast in NL?

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When he joins the liturgy; you can't just see the beauty of the CT until you practice it

Question 29

What is B's liturgy?

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Discipleship

Question 30

Cheap Grace v. Costly Grace

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Cheap: being in it, but not seeing its true beauty Costly: working hard and allowing the story to cost you something

Question 31

B's main line

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"Only he who believes is obedient and he who is obedient believes

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The way in which we approach the world

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Technology; reality is shaped by devices and technology alleviates the claims made on your life

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Statements about technology

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- we become masters of the world - we are programmed to think if something makes a claim on us its a problem and it can be fixed - unlike technology, there its nothing quick, easy, or cheap in our faith (if there is, you're doing it wrong)

Question 34

Celebration and grace

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You can't celebrate deeply unless a costly claim is made on you. Cheap grace is fun, but it can't be celebrated

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Facts about Bonhoeffer

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Lutheran pastor 4 degrees in theology (2 drs) before age 25 Studied theology in the US, went back to Germany executed by nazis in plot to kill hitler

Question 36

Cheap grace vs. costly grace chart

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``` Cheap: grace we give ourselves forgiveness without repentance baptism without discipline communion without confession without discipleship without the cross without Jesus (costly is all with, grace bestowed by God; must be practiced) ```

Question 37

**Smith wants the reader of How Not to be Secular to know...

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the "feel" of the secular age

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**the primary characteristic of a secular age

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presence of competing narratives

Question 39

**Smith describes the secular age as

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cross-pressured

Question 40

**Which secular definition is the one we are living in now?

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Secular 3

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**According to B, what is a characteristic of cheap grace

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grace we bestow upon ourselves

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**What is a characteristic of technology in the late modern era

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It suggests we can be free by mastering our circumstances

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** The subtle process by which our world and hence the real of significance is enclosed within the material universe and the natural world

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Immanentization

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**2 ways to engage a secular age

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Take | Spin

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*Liturgy

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Service

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**B: "When Christ calls a man...

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"he bids him come and die"

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**When we pursue cheap, quick, easy lives, we lose our ability to

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celebrate

Question 48

**When could Peter see the feast

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When he joined the liturgy of NL

Question 49

**Why was Maggie able to remember her home and recognize her dad when jack couldnt

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She practiced the liturgy of home by singing songs her mom taught her

Question 50

**Smith's quote about the secular age

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"I don't believe in God, but I miss him"

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**secular people

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still want the feeling of transcendence

Question 52

**What does a liturgy do

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**Draws one into and roots one into a particular narrative

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**Pervasive technology suggests to us that

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we don't have to be claimed by anything